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Cloudy posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
OYAN is coming along nicely! I NEED HELP!!! MY MAIN MALE CHARACTER IS TOO PERFECT! At this point I’m just creating my ideal husband. @kate-flournoy @dragon-snapper @that_writer_girl_99
Cloudy posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
OYAN is coming along nicely! I NEED HELP!!! MY MAIN MALE CHARACTER IS TOO PERFECT! At this point I’m just creating my ideal husband. @kate-flournoy @dragon-snapper @that_writer_girl_99
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@Cloudy *chokes* I can see why that might be giving you problems. XD
Uhhh… my first advice would be see if you can find it in your heart to figure out his faults. Or maybe it’s your approach to him that’s the difficulty; maybe you need to analyze yourself. Do you admire him, or understand him? Is he an ideal, or a living breathing human? Can you see him falling flat on his nose in a mud-puddle, or waking up on the wrong side of the bed, or spilling his breakfast all over the front of his shirt? If not, I think it’s probably your approach that needs to be worked on first. 😛
@cloudy Hmmm…… Mostly what Kate said…make him not so perfect. Do whatever you have to do to make it that way. Maybe if you need to, write a random scene (that won’t be put into your WIP) where he is the badguy. Or the henchman. Or a kid being bullied at school. Or being bullied.
But otherwise, what Kate said. 😛
I’m not sure I can say anything that hasn’t been said already, but here goes:
All people have flaws. Remember this. Guys…well. They have a lot of flaws. Some of them talk to much. Some of them talk too little. Some of them struggle with pride, some of them struggle with insecurity. Everyone has something they struggle with, and that thing can often permeate their actions without them realizing it.
How to find this “thing’ I speak of? I’d say the answer lies in the character’s backstory. One of my MCs, Matthias, is dead-set on protecting his sister at all costs, and when said sister dies, it lets loose this deep-rooted rage that’s been simmering beneath the surface. Like I said. Even the most “perfect” characters can have issues.